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Hi, I'm new to the forum and could do with some advice.

I already have a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder and dyslexia but have always thought that some of my symptoms just don't fit with my BPD diagnosis.

I get confused and forget things all the time. I completely misinterpret people's body language and don't notice when I am talking about something and everyone has stopped listening ages ago. I find it really hard to put myself in other people's shoes and am often confused when someone says I have upset them because I don't know why. This causes a lot of problems in my relationship because I will do something to upset OH, he will get offended and then my BPD takes over and all hell will break loose. Something that he struggles to understand is that I only know that he feels rejected/hurt by my actions because he tells me, not because I have picked up on it. I am not very good with eye contact and people often get annoyed and tell me to look at them when they are talking to me. I also have no volume control and my partner often has to tell me to be quite when I am yelling in the supermarket. I don't even realise I am doing it at the time. I had a lot of trouble when I was at uni because of social anxiety (most likely BPD related) and because I get fixated on one topic. I loved doing practical things, biology and genetics but they wanted me to do other stuff like biochem which I don't like and didn't want to do. This happens to me a lot, I got fixated on one thing and nothing else matters.

For quite a while now my partner and I have been convinced that something more is going on. My partner thinks I might have Aspergers and I think it might be that or Dyspraxia as I also have problems with my motor skills. If anyone could give me some advice on what to do it would be appreciated. I have just started doing DBT for the BPD and I am worried that the other problems I have could interfere with achieving my goals in therapy.

Thanks in advance.

sounds much like aspergers.

Thanks for your reply.

Who do you think I am best off talking to about an assessment? My MH team are pretty disorganised so I wouldn't know where to start.

Welkome to WP

Mick

With my psychologist I simply asked to be tested for Apergers. My son was recently diagnosed.

I took an Aspergers and NT Quotient test and scored high on the AS quotient and below average on the NT.

That's all there was to it.

Now that I've excepted it I'm just trying to decide what to do about it.

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Thanks for the advice and welcomes. I will have to talk to someone from my MH team and see if they will actually listen to me.